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RELEASE DATE: 10/3/2025
If Izzy Hagerups new album, System, feels immediately uncompromising its because it was never really designed for public consumption. Released under her Prewn moniker, Hagerup describes the album as a private journal made public. Told across nine arresting new songs, the album chronicles a deeply personal journey through the darkness of depression, but one thats always undercut by moments of humor, selfishness and self-reflection, a push-and-pull that feels wholly distinctive.
Following on 2023s Through The Window LP – a collection of songs that Pitchfork hailed as a striking example of Hagerups ability to sit with ugliness – System finds Hagerup crawling even deeper into the dense folds of the night. Written and recorded solely by Hagerup, mostly in long stretches of bedroom sessions that found her working through the small hours until she began to hear birdsong, the album reckons with a lot of the thoughts that tend to needle in at that time of night; guilt, shame, and self-absorption, as well as the societal pressures that sit at the root of such things.
From a bedroom floor in the middle of the night, through a tangle of cables and complex emotions, System grew into a document of disassociation, but it comes undercut with a sense of lightness when compared to whats come before. It doesnt surrender to the darkness, it dives into it with a keen and exploring eye and through the gloom it finds constant realizations of the wonder and appreciation of life. That journey holds a special kind of power. Theres bravery in it, a struggle that never asks you to look away but instead to follow it down the rabbit hole. That it leads to a place of fascination is testament to the sheer force these songs hold; songs of hurt and heart, fear and fun.
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